Compressing/Decompressing files in Linux

The first thing that we must know, it’s to Compress/Decompress we need some applications, like “unzip” or “unrar”. All of them can be installed using “apt-get” or downloading it from their respective project pages. To find them, can use google .

But, to compress/decompress we’ll use some commands. I did this table with any (the most important, i think) u/d commands.

.tar.gz (Tar + Gzip)
Pack and compress	tar czvf file.tar.gz /folder1/subfolder/*
Unpack and decompress	tar xzvf file.tar.gz
To view data	tar tzvf file.tar.gz
.tar (Tar)
Pack and compress	tar cvf file.tar / folder1/ subfolder /*
Unpack and decompress	tar xvf file.tar
To view data	ttar tvf file.tar
.bz2 (Bzip2)
Compress	bzip2 file
Decompress	bzip2 -d file.bz2
.zip (Zip)
Compress	zip file.zip /folder1/subfolder
Decompress	unzip file.zip
To view data	unzip -v file.zip
.rar (Rar)
Compress	rar -a file.rar /folder1/subfolder
Decompress	rar -x file.rar
To view data	rar -v file.rar